My Thoughts on This: I guess it’s time to start thinking again. The heavy part of the holidays are over and pressure is building for us to confront the new year. I’m not sure why I’m sharing this with you because I’va also been reading posts by people in the know who made predictions last …
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Thought for the Week
Here we are at the end of the year and that means it’s almost time for NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS! For me, these are always things I’ve been putting off and this is an opportunity to force myself to act! Unfortunately, after a while, they become depressing, since for the past several decades, I’ve never been …
State Versus Citizen in Tomorrow’s World
My Thoughts on This: There is a right vs left component here that will determine the state of the world that our grandchildren inhabit. We can argue ‘till the cows come home which is better but at the end of the day, none of us individually has much influence on the outcome. So, today we …
Respect for Those Who Finish the Job
My Thoughts on This: It’s usually pretty easy to be critical of those who either don’t think like we do or act in ways that we don’t think are appropriate. Especially when you’re a grumpy old man like me, as my wife is prone to remind me from time to time. This article caught my …
Harnessing the Power of Ritual
My Comments: OK, its Monday and near the end of the year and we’re all tired of politics and conflics involving the Fiscal Cliff. And then that God Awful incident in Connecticut that cries out for someone to show some leadership and force upon us a discussion about guns in this country. Ritual is apparently …
Why I’m Optimistic About The Economy
My Comments: The other evening I was talking with a colleague and our conversation shifted to investments and what’s likely to happen now that ObamaCare is going to happen. We agreed we are likely to go over the cliff without an agreement in place. What does it all mean? He asserted that in few years, …
10 Overlooked Tax Breaks
With October 15 behind us and April 15 still comfortably far away, it’s a good time to start boning up on ways to save money once things start getting serious. With that in mind, Bankrate.com identified 10 great deductions that individual taxpayers should use – but often forget. 1. Charitable expenses Sure, the donation is …
9 Things Successful People Do Differently
This showed up recently and since I like to think of myself as mildly successful, it caught my attention. I perhaps grade out at B+. By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne | October 26, 2012 Just about any topic the Harvard Business Review considers becomes golden as soon as it hits HBR’s website. The site’s most popular …
The Future, for Me, for You, for Us
My Comments: As I find myself getting older, I find myself increasingly fascinated by how the future is going to unfold. Some of this may be because the number of years I have left is predictably shrinking. My uncle, my father’s younger brother, recently died at age 96. My grandson is about to turn 2 …
Helping Define Your Financial Future 